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Thursday, November 15, 2012

School Rules

My school has

a lunchtime rule--

No trading food--

it isn't cool.

But watching you

eat your pumpkin pie

makes me so hungry

I could cry.

This isn't trading

make no mistake.

I'm just sharing a bite

of my chocolate cake.

You're my best friend

so let's give it a try.

Can I please have

a taste of your pumpkin pie?

Does your school have lunchtime rules? I know schools that have rules like no peanutbutter (that was because there were children with allergies to peanutbutter) or worse yet, no talking during lunch (because the lunch room got too noisy with all the talking). Can you write a poem today about school rules?
Oh this seems like a rich area for poetry. Are there special rules for the school library? Have fun writing.

2 comments:

Joy,I don't have a poem but I bet you could get a great list if each person shared one lunchroom experience. Some schools use a traffic signal light to remind students of their noise level. Did you know of this one?

Oh yes, lunchtime is a rich area for poetry. It is the one time during the day that the kids get to have a little freedom. I've read about the traffic lights, but I've never seen them. I know at my son's elementary school the kids put their left over everything but meat (slop) into a plastic garbage can that the farmer would pick up daily for his pigs. A great way to recycle.

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Joy Acey, the Princess of Poetry, has won many prizes for her poems. She published in Highlight's HIGH FIVE, and The Poetry Friday Anthologies. She is a performance artist and conducts writing workshops for children and adults. She’s hopped a freight train to ride in a boxcar over the world's second largest wooden trestle bridge. She was on a TV game show and won enough money for a trip to Australia. She has lived in England and Japan. She has walked across a volcano in Hawaii and a glacier in New Zealand. She has gone swimming with iguanas in the Galapagos and was in Ecuador during a revolution. She visited the rainforest in Peru, went on safari in Kenya and walked The Great Wall in China. Always looking for new adventures to write about, she currently lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her husband Jeffrey Frelinger, an immunologist. She has two grown sons and two fabulous daughters-in-law.